Motor vehicle



March 2,1926.

A. MooRHoUsE MOTOR VEHICLE Filed May 10 1925 @atom/ag Patented Mar.

UNITED; STA-Tas PATENT l o 1,515,116 FFICE.

Amman xoonnonsn, or Darnorr, MICHIGAN, AssIGNoa 'ro PACKARD Moron CAB. COMPANY, or nn'rnorr, MICHIGAN, A conroaA'rIoN or MICHIGAN.

' 4.Moron VEHICLE.

'Application led May 10, 1923. Serial No. 638,063.

To all whom, it may concern.' v

Be it known that I, ALFRED MoonHoUsE, 'a

Icitizen of thel United States, and resident of Detroit, Wayne County, State of Michigan,

Vhave inventedl certain new anduseful Improvements in Motor Vehicles, of which the following is a specification. y

rIphe present invention relates to vehicles` and more particularly to the rear axle construction thereof.

The invention has particular reference toV the arrangement and method of mounting the bearings whichsupport the differentialcage oftthe axle. The principal object is to 1 provide a construction `in which the race `ringsof thesebearings are so supported'as ossibility of any distor-f to eliminate the tion thereof. eretofore it .has been common practice to support the outer race rings of the bearings in adivided housing, the members of which are clamped together by screws and I `have discovered lthat the clamping of these members on the race rings some times produces slight distortions` Even ,a very slight 'dis.

tortion of the rings, effecting only a minute departure from trueness of the race ways,

causes\uneven wear which ultimately rer.

sults in a looseness of the bearings whichcannot be remedied by adjustment. `Such distortion, with itsv resulting wear, also;

renders the bearing noisy.

In accordance with the present invention y the outer race ringsv of the bearings support@ ing the differential cage have a nice but non-clamping it in seats formed in the sides of the differential cage, and the inner race rings have a careful non-distorting it on ,seats carried by longitudinal ladjustable sleeves surrounding the aille shafts and supported by the axlevhousin'g; 'This construc-y tion eliminates any possibilityk of'the race rings becoming distorted, and at the same time is simple, strong, easy of adjustment,

and permits rapid assembling ofthe parts'.4

Another object of the invention is to arrange :the bearings supporting the cage in such manner that they are better adapted to take the radial 'and thrust loads than in prior constructions..v This object is accomplished by disposing the tapered rollers of the bearings so that the axes thereof'conf verge towards the diiferential cage, that is, to say, the rollers are disposed with the small ends thereof adjacent the cage, where- I motor;

' by the bearing surfaces are more nearly nor -mal to the load.

. Other objects and features of novelty will 4be apparent from the description takenin connection lwith the drawings in whichv the single figure is a horizontal sectional View through` the central portion of ,a rear axle construction havingl thev present invention inco orated therewith..

Re erring to the drawing, theynumeral' 10 Vdesignates the axle casing or housing which may be, ofany acceptedV construction hav-y 12 `which is secured to the casing bylbolts l Such asindicated .at 12s and this frame ca'r'ries the stub shaft 13 ljournaled in tapered roller bearings supportedin a cage which is adjustably' secured 'in said frame. Theseparts are well knownand hence need no further description. f

As pre V'ousl stated', the present invention relates tothe earings supporting the dif-y ferential cage. This cage 14 may `be of any accepted construction.y Asj'fshown, it has bolted kthereto the large bevel ring gear 15.

whichfmeshes with the driving pinion 13 on the stub-shaft' 13.. It `also carriles the small -bevelplanet gears l'which mesh with the bevel sun .gears 17 non-rotatably'secured on the ends of the axlel shafts' 18. The frame 12Uhas rigid therewith av pair of lugs 19 formed with bores which arecoaxial with the axle casing 10 and are interiorly threaded at their outer ends. to' receive the threaded outer end siof the sleeves 20. These sleeves attheir outer ends are formed with notches adapted to receive lock dogs 21 which are mounted on the. lugs,.whereby the sleevesirhay bel locked-in adjusted position..

ends of the 'sleeves'l adjacent ,the dif- "ferential'cage are .reduced to form shouldered seats '20a for' the inner race rings 22 of the bearingsr Ysupporting the cage. These rings are carefully fitted on the seats' thus provided andabut the shoulders formed by the reduced portions `of the sleeves.

The` outer 4race rings 24 areymountcd in rabbetted seats provided 'in the'sides of the differential cage. j These seats are formed in annnlar'flanges atgthe sides fof said cage and have' cylindrical surfaces and inner `shoulders adapted to abut the inner sides .the load to which the cage is sub'ected, in the constructed and the rollers most efficient manner. Thus t e rings are disposed'so that the apices of the rollers are llocated on the cage side of the bearings. In otherA words the rollers are arranged so that their small ends are positioned next to the cage. The

thrust of the pinion 13a on the ring gear 15 tends to turn the cage in a counterclockwise direction vas viewed in the drawing. The

rollers of the left hand,bearing, in fron of the axle, and the rollers of the righthand bearing,

tendency t0 lturn and in the form of the invention shown are disposed so that they'- are better adapted to take the load due to this thrust than if the rollers were positioned so that the small ends thereof would lie at the outer sides ofthe bearings.

, Although a specific embodiment of the irlventionl has been'y described in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not 'flange on ea j sleeves and sa1d sleeves having reduced inner' ends projectmg into.l saidianges, an outer in rear of fthebearing, resist this..

or" each sleeve and abuttin `the annularthus'limited but includes modifications and changes which come within the scope of the appended claim.

- Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desiredto be' secure by Letters Patent is: l

In a rear axle structurefor motor vehicles, in combination, a tubular axle casing having a central front opening, a cover frame secured to said casing over said opening, a.pair of lugs integral with saidframe and coaxial withsaid casing sleeves screwed in' said lugs and having adjusting notches at their outer ends, dogs mounted on said llugs adapted to engage saidv notches to hold said sleeves in adjusted positions, a differential cage between -the innerends of said sleeves, said cage having an annular h side thereof coaxial with szud race ring seated in each of said flanges, an inner race ring seated on the 'reduced end signature. i

ALFRED MOORHOIISE.` 

